12 Rules for Life (Book)
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: Subhead: An Antidote to Chaos - a deconstruction of what motivates people and makes them fulfilled.
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While it's sort of categorized as self-help, it's not the fluffy, granola-crunchy book that is favored by New Age hippies -- it's more a deconstruction of what motivates people and makes them fulfilled, as well as the psychology behind it and what motivates them: an in-your-face, get-real book that tries to smack people into seeing what is good around them, and what kind of person they want to be. Not a mommy psychologist, "how does that make you feel" type, but more a manly life coach saying, "put on your big-boy pants and stop doing shit that you're ashamed of, and do more shit that will make you die proud of yourself".
The rules belie the deeper messages behind them, and the point is more in how to achieve them than in the rules themselves, but they are:
- Stand up straight with your shoulders back
- Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
- Make friends with people who want the best for you
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
- Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
- Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
- Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
- Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie
- Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't
- Be precise in your speech
- Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
- Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
- He has a way of wandering all over the place, discussing research and things that may seem only a bit related... and ultimately tying those things back into the rule itself.
